Background: Intensive Care Unit nurses’ stress follows a pattern of reactions that occurs when nurses are presents with work demands not matched to their knowledge, skills or abilities and which challenge their ability to cope. Therefore, ICU nurse should not be left to acquire this stress because the consequences will be job dissatisfaction, reductions in the quality of care and patient satisfaction, guilty, deterioration in the nurse’s health, abandoning critical care as a nursing specialty and great effects on the clinical practice and the personal lives of nurses who work in critical care environments.Aim of the study:The present study aimed to examine the effect of work stress management program on staff nurses’ job satisfaction.Research Design:A quasi-experimental (pre/post-test) design was used to conduct the current study.Study Setting:The study was conducted in critical care units at Benha University Hospital, Egypt. The studysample: All the available staff nurses (128) who working in the above-mentioned setting.Tools of data collection: Three tools were utilized namely; Self-assessment Knowledge Questionnaire, work stress self-administers questionnaire and job satisfaction questionnaire.Results:There were highly statistical significant improvement in staff nurses' level of work stress and job satisfaction after implementation of program. In addition, there was negative statistical significant correlation between work stress and staff nurses’ job satisfaction through program phases.Conclusion:The study concluded that work stress management program was effective program on enhancing of staff nurses’ job satisfaction.Recommendations:It is suggests that psychologists and psychiatrists should help the staff in coping with work stress by developing educational methods, courses, as well as different and periodic workshops considering the proof of effectiveness of stress management training and stressful work conditions and organizations should create an environment that encourages workers to use more positive coping strategies when experiencing stress. |
